 | Colyer Meriwether - 1889 - 492 halaman
...no further exposition. In the words of Madison : " A popular government without popular education, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both." The best security to guard against the evils that threaten us is in affording... | |
 | Richard Harcourt - 1890 - 350 halaman
...liberty could not be kept burning in the hearts of Americans. Madison, over sixty years ago, said : " A popular government, without popular information...acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or tragedy, or perhaps both." Already, in too many instances, our elections have become a farce as Madison predicted.... | |
 | John Cleaves Henderson - 1890 - 408 halaman
...made bythe Legislature of Kentucky for a general system of education cannot be too much applauded. A popular Government, without popular information,...means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy ; or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance ; and a people who mean to be... | |
 | 1890 - 332 halaman
...unto you. John xlo, 27. KNOWLEDGE WILL, GOVERN IGNORANCE. Knowledge will ever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. James \ladiaoii. June IS. PROVERB.— Don't have more secrets than you can carry... | |
 | John Cleaves Henderson - 1890 - 414 halaman
...prologue to a farce or a tragedy ; or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance ; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. " I have always felt a more than ordinary interest in the destinies of Kentucky.... | |
 | Mississippi. State Dept. of Education - 1890 - 468 halaman
...but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or, perhaps, both- Knowledge will ever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." In discharging the duties of this office I have treated our free school system... | |
 | William T. Alexander - 1800 - 662 halaman
...they cast. This startling fact brings forcibly to mind the warning words of James Madison in 1826: "A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but the prologue to a farce, or tragedy, or both." With a knowledge of these statistics of illiteracy,... | |
 | Herbert Baxter Adams - 1894 - 450 halaman
...is established upon a basis which can not be shaken that knowledge will ever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives, it can not be doubted that the patriotic statesmen of this legislature will... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education, United States. Office of Education - 1894 - 446 halaman
...is established upon a basis which can not be shaken that knowledge will ever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives, it can not be doubted that the patriotic statesmen of this legislature will... | |
 | James Madison - 1910 - 698 halaman
...a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. I have always felt a more than ordinary interest in the destinies of Kentucky.... | |
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with... 
